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Who said “your TSA don’t dance and your USPTO don’t rock and roll?” (One free copy of BlogBridge for all of you who get the reference without using Wikipedia) Here are two cool examples. First up, the TSA ([Transportation Security Administration) now has a blog that seems to be much more than a ...
Read more →From TimesOnline, a good reminder to not forget that we do live in a USA bubble sometimes, and don’t pay enough attention to the rest of the world: “A little over two decades later, Arkady Volozh is the chief executive and one of the founders of Yandex, Russia’...
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Take a look at that very weird looking Mac menu. I didn’t (knowingly) do anything to get it and yet every time I launch a new application it’s menus are corrupted that way. All of its menus, and with fancy animated graphics. Anyone know what’s going on? I just told someone today that Mac’s NEVER have viruses!
On a project I worked on recently, I asked myself whether I should make one or more of Amazon’s awesome web services (AWS – Awesome Web Services) a mission critical part of the infrastructure of the product. I wrote yesterday about the [considerations that go into deciding to rely on services like A...
Read more →I wonder about this. Why is it considered a slur to use Democrat as an adjective? For example, “The Democrat plan is to …” vs. “The Democratic plan is to…” Oddly enough, do my ear or my mind, Democrat does sound harsh and evil, but I can’t put my finger on why. Just wondering…
Jason Calcanis has stopped blogging and instead is doing an email only mailing list(yes, how 1999 of him.) I had heard about it but recently got me a copy of his most recent missive. Interesting, opinion...
Read more →I don’t know why it don’t. I don’t know why the error message doesn’t just say: “Hey dope, Ruby has no ++ operator” Originally posted on Apr 13, 2007. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
Apple always, or almost always, thinks through the user interface carefully and includes all kinds of deft and elegant touches that delight and amaze users. Not always though. Sometimes there’s a crazy quilt of magic and cleverness that is totally baffling. Originally posted on Feb 15, 2008. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
Came across this interesting article. You may agree or not, but it’s definitely interesting: > “So now the process can be fully diagrammed, and the cast of characters is stunning. The torture system involves the operations division of the CIA on the implementation side. They rely heavily on contractors, it seems, in torturing people. And a special role is apparently played by a couple of psychologists. (from Harper’s Magazine) p.s. Happy Valentine’s Day 🙂 Originally posted on Feb 14, 2008. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
Check out the latest summary of amazing featsby BlogBridge. I don’t want to be too cheeky, but there are some pretty cool things that you get from BlogBridge (for free) that you can’t get anywhere else. BlogBridge is definitely a serious tool which is why I bit my tongue and marked this post ‘geeky’ but really it’s also, as you know, my labor of love, so I can’t resist showing it off. Hope you take a moment to try it! Originally posted on Sep 25, 2007. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
Here is a full article written by Jeremy Wagstaff… > Blind to Bargains If We Won’t Pay for Software, People Won’t Write It April 20, 2007 Computers would be nothing without programs to run on them, so why do we spend so much time drooling over our hardware — physical bits and pieces — and so little...
Read more →After an interesting comment on my previous post on Electric Cars topic, “Who Killed the Electric Car” suddenly I am seeing stuff about this top...
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My Treo 600 recently died a hard death. I had to learn a new cell phone, a relatively low end one, and it was a serious undertaking. Someone I know recently did a 90 minute drive in 3.5 hours because their car’s GPS inadvertently was se...
Originally posted on Jan 01, 2006. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
I just saw the movie “Who Killed the Electric Car” which makes a pretty compelling case that years ago General Motors had a working and practical electric car which they took off the market under what are portrayed as **suspicious circu...
Read more →By now if you probably heard about Cuil, the new search engine that claims to be the biggest (since when does size matter when it comes to search engines?) And secondly is being given a [PR pass because it was created by ‘ex-Google employees’](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/27/cuill-launches-a-ma...
Read more →Ok this is a bit irreverent. There’s been a spat relating to the note that Barack Obama wrote and left in the stones of the Western Wall (the “wailing wall”). This tradition goes way back. The [spat is about the fact that someone pulled it out and photographed it and it’s been all over the papers.]...
Read more →So I received two new Discover cards, with supposed enhanced security features. I didn’t ask for them, they just sent them to me. I got a new account number which is a pain because various merchants directly bill my credit card and they will have to be updated, by me. You know the little sticker...
Read more →An interesting, quirky, though-provoking — memorable article in Wired about Memory: > “[snip…]SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you’ve learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you’ve forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you’re about to forget.” (from Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn?)
Yeah I know all the reviews have been raving – “Best movie this year” – “Will change your life” – and so on. I saw this new animated film last night. It did have really wonderful “Star Wars”-class visuals but as an overall story and movie experience, well, it was fine. Not even as good as Toy Story. Sorry.